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Takahashi is the 2010 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2010 world champion, a two-time world silver medalist, a two-time Four Continents champion and a five-time Japanese champion ... He is the first Japanese male skater to win a medal (bronze) at the Olympics and to win the world title (2010) ... Won the world junior championships the first and only time he competed in the event (2002), making him the first Japanese man to hold that title.

Skating idols are Olympic champions Alexei Yagudin and Evgeni Plushenko and Japan's Takeshi Honda ... Moved to Osaka in 2004 to attend university, and the school has built a new ice rink where Takahashi and several other elite skaters can train ... Set then world records with his gold medal-winning scores at the 2008 Four Continents Championships ... Missed all of the 2008-09 season to recover from knee surgery.

• 2013 Season Notes
  SP Music: Rock 'n' roll medley: "Hard Times" (The Slop) by Noble (Thin Man) Watts, "The Stroll" by Lawson Haggart Rockin' Band and "Rudy's Rock" by Bill Haley & The Comets
  FS Music: Music from Pagliacci by Ruggero Leoncavallo
• 2012 Season Notes
  SP Music: Songs from "In the Garden of Souls" by Vas
  FS Music: "Blues for Klook" by Eddy Louis
• 2011 Season Notes
  SP Music: "Historia de un Amor" played by Perez Prado and "Que Rico El Mambo" by Perez Prado
  FS Music: "Invierno Porteño" by Tango Siempre, composed by Ástor Piazzolla
• 2010 Season Notes
  SP Music: "Eye" by Coba
  FS Music: "La Strada" by Nino Rota
• 2008 Season Notes
  SP Music: Hip-hop version of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"
  FS Music: "Romeo and Juliet" by Tchaikovsky
• 2007 Season Notes
  SP Music: "Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35" by Tchaikovsky
  FS Music: Music from The Phantom of the Operaby Andrew Lloyd Webber
• 2006 Season Notes
  SP Music: "El Tango de Roxanne" from the Moulin Rouge soundtrack by Mariano Mores
  FS Music: "Piano Concerto No. 2" by Sergei Rachmaninoff
• 2005 Season Notes
  SP Music: "Nyah" from the Mission: Impossible II soundtrack by Hans Zimmer
  FS Music: "Sabre Dance" from Gayane by Aram Khachaturian; "Concierto de Aranjuez" by Joaquín Rodrigo
• 2004 Season Notes
  SP Music: "Nyah" from the Mission: Impossible II soundtrack by Hans Zimmer
  FS Music: "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" (Variation on a Theme of Niccolò Paganini) by Sergei Rachmaninoff
• 2003 Season Notes
  SP Music: "Symphony No. 4" by Philip Glass
  FS Music: Music from the Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones soundtrack by John Williams
• 2002 Season Notes
  SP Music: Music from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein
  FS Music: "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra No.1 in G minor, Op.26" by Max Bruch

2013 - World Team Trophy - 3rd (team)
2013 - World Championships - 6th
2013 - Four Continents Championships - 7th
2012 - Grand Prix Final - 1st
2012 - NHK Trophy - 2nd
2012 - Cup of China - 2nd
2012 - World Team Trophy - 1st (team)
2012 - World Championships - 2nd
2012 - Four Continents Championships - 2nd
2012 - Japanese Championships - 1st
2011 - Grand Prix Final - 2nd
2011 - NHK Trophy - 1st
2011 - Skate Canada - 3rd
2011 - World Championships - 5th
2011 - Four Continents Championships - 1st
2011 - Japanese Championships - 3rd
2010 - Grand Prix Final - 4th
2010 - Skate America - 1st
2010 - NHK Trophy - 1st
2010 - World Championships - 1st
2010 - Olympic Winter Games - 3rd
2010 - Japanese Championships - 1st
2009 - Grand Prix Final - 5th
2009 - Skate Canada - 2nd
2009 - NHK Trophy - 4th
2009 - Finlandia Trophy - 1st
2008 - Japan Open - 4th
2008 - World Championships - 4th
2008 - Four Continents Championships - 1st
2008 - Japanese Championships - 1st
2007 - Grand Prix Final, Turin - 2nd
2007 - NHK Trophy - 1st
2007 - Skate America - 1st
2007 - World Championships - 2nd
2007 - Japanese Championships - 1st
2007 - Winter Universiade - 1st
2007 - Grand Prix Final, St. Petersburg - 2nd
2006 - NHK Trophy - 1st
2006 - HomeSense Skate Canada - 2nd
2006 - Winter Olympic Games - 8th
2006 - Japanese Championships - 1st
2006 - Grand Prix Final, Tokyo - 3rd
2005 - Japan International Challenge - 2nd
2005 - NHK Trophy - 3rd
2005 - SmartOnes Skate America - 1st
2005 - World Championships - 15th
2005 - Four Continents Championship - 3rd
2005 - Japanese Championships - 6th
2005 - Winter Universiade - 1st
2004 - Trophee Eric Bompard - 11th
2004 - World Championships - 11th
2004 - Four Continents Championship - 6th
2004 - Japanese Championships - 3rd
2003 - Trophee Lalique - 5th
2003 - MasterCard Skate Canada - 7th
2003 - Four Continents Championship - 13th
2003 - Japanese Championships - 4th
2002 - NHK Trophy - 8th
2002 - World Junior Championships - 1st
2002 - Japanese Championships - 5th
2002 - Japanese Championships, Junior - 1st
2001 - Junior Grand Prix Final - 4th
2001 - Junior Grand Prix (Japan) - 1st
2001 - Junior Grand Prix (Bulgaria) - 2nd
2001 - Japanese Championships, Junior - 4th
2000 - Junior Grand Prix (China) - 9th
2000 - Junior Grand Prix (Ukraine) - 8th
2000 - Japanese Championships, Junior - 3rd